Skip navigation

Tools & Technology Feedback

17-3031.01 — Surveying Technicians

The current Tools and Technology examples for this occupation are listed below. Please add your suggested examples to the appropriate category. When you are finished, click the Send Feedback button at the bottom of this page.

Tools

All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled
  • Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles
Axes
Barometers
Calculators or accessories
  • Pre-programmed coordinate geometry COGO calculators
  • Programmable calculators
Clinometers
Desktop computers
Digital cameras
Distance meters
  • Electronic distance measuring devices
  • Electrotapes
  • Measuring chains
  • Tellurometers
Extension pole
  • Prism poles
Extensometers
Geological compasses
Global positioning system receivers
  • Community base station global positioning systems GPS
  • Global positioning system GPS devices
  • Real-time kinematics RTK global positioning systems GPS
Hatchets
Instrument tripods
  • Tripods
Laser measuring systems
  • 3D laser scanning systems
  • Laser distance measuring equipment
  • Laser scanner coordinate capturing equipment
Laser printers
Level sensors or transmitters
  • Transit levels
Levels
  • Automatic optical pendulum leveling systems
  • Electronic digital/bar-code leveling systems
  • Geodetic leveling rods
  • Hand levels
  • Leveling bubbles
  • Optical pendulum levels
Machetes
Mallets
Measuring rods
  • Sight targets
  • Vertical/target rods
Measuring tables
  • Alidades
  • Plane tables
Measuring wheels for distance
  • Wheeled measuring devices
Metal detectors
  • Magnetic field pipe locators
Notebook computers
Personal computers
Plotter printers
  • Plotters
Plumb bobs
Pneumatic hammer
  • Jackhammers
Portable data input terminals
  • Handheld data collectors
  • Portable hydrographic surveying equipment
  • Ranger data collectors
  • Robotic survey measuring instruments
  • Survey instrument control units
Power saws
  • Chain saws
Prisms
Saws
  • Telescoping pole saws
Scales
  • Engineering scales
Scanners
Seismic receivers
  • Ground vibration sensing equipment
Sonars
  • Echosounders
  • Fathometer sonar equipment
  • Multibeam sonar equipment
  • Side scan sonars
Tape measures
  • Measuring tapes
Templates
Theodolites
  • Total stations
  • Tribrach level bubble adjusting blocks
  • Tribrach optical plummet adjusting cylinders
Triangles
Two way radios

Technology

Analytical or scientific software
  • CARIS HIPS
  • CARIS SIPS
  • Coordinate geometry COGO software
  • Datalog with guidance DLWG software
  • Foresoft CDS Cogo
  • Foresoft CDS Model
  • Low-level driver LLD software
  • MicroSurvey FieldGenius
  • MicroSurvey OfficeSync
  • Modeling software
  • QuickCogo software
  • Trimble Geomatics Office
  • Trimble GPS Pathfinder
  • Trimble Total Control
  • Tripod Data Systems software
  • Triton Elics International Isis
Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD software
  • Autodesk CAiCE Visual Transportation software
  • Autodesk Land Desktop
  • Bentley MicroStation
  • Carlson CG Survey
  • Carlson SurvCADD
  • MENSI 3Dipsos
  • MicroSurvey software
  • Trimble Terramodel
  • Tripod Data Systems Foresight
  • TRS Software TomCADD
Data base reporting software
  • Survey Starnet Software
Data base user interface and query software
  • Database software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Trimble TerraSync
Electronic mail software
  • Email software
  • Microsoft Exchange
Internet browser software
  • Web browser software
Map creation software
  • Bentley InRoads software
  • Carlson software
  • Carlson Survey
  • Desktop digital photogrammetry system DDPS software
  • ESRI ArcInfo
  • ESRI ArcView
  • Geomechanical design analysis GDA software
  • Muncy Plat Pronto
  • SiteComp software
  • Traverse PC software
  • Trimble Digital Fieldbook
Office suite software
  • Microsoft Office software
Spreadsheet software
  • Microsoft Excel
Word processing software
  • Microsoft Word

Additional Examples

If you would like to suggest examples that do not fit into the categories above, please enter them below.

Optional Information


If you would be willing for us to contact you for additional information on your responses, please provide your name and email address below: